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On the contrary, I can live with a 51th Tatum cd. 😀

Over the last few days:

Triple YES, that is for me!

Stride pianist Joe Turner and blues shouter Big Joe Turner, often mistook in web pages and even discographies.

The Hot Club of New York announced the passing of Jan Evensmo. I got this information last night from fellow board member @Fer Urbina: "This morning we learned the sad news that Jan Evensmo has left us. For those who aren't familiar with this name, he was an amazing jazz fan, scholar and discographer who created the jazz 'solography.' His work is available for free at https://www.jazzarcheology.com/. Jan was a great influence on Charles, myself, and many others in the Hot Club community, and he would often visit Hot Club meetings on his visits to the states. His work has been an invaluable resource in our programming." Jan was a true jazz lover and enthusiast, a generous human being and a nice guy. May he rest in peace!

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This book is getting huge promotion efforts, with presentations all over the Spanish geography, which are typically accompanied by a concert from a varying group led by Ignasi Terraza (natural inheritor of Tete Montoliu's piano tradition in Spain) and Horacio Fumero (longtime bassist in Tete's trio). My viewpoint, in a nutshell: it IS a nice book, though NOT a great book (in terms of documentation, original research and comprehensiveness).

From Lewis Porter's Substack page: https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/for-the-new-year-new-tatum-with-nat

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Currently delving into the East Broadway loft days chapter (1966).

Sonny's RCA period (obviously ), 1962-1964. Particularly, the "The Standard Sonny Rollins" sessions were spread all over June and early-July 1964.

Don Byas Mosaic, disc 1

Clarified. VAT payed to FedEx. Last time I order directly from Mosaic.

Thanks for the alert! Of course, I haven't sent the bank transfer yet. I had planned to make a call to that phone number to get the needed clarifications. No additional emails from FedEx yet. In the tracking feature of their website, the package is shown as "delivered" and the process closed. So strange!

I am afraid I was too optimistic. 😔 The package arrived yesterday, with a notice to pay VAT under a very odd procedure: the guy from FedEx left a bank current account number (without any bank account holder reference), written by hand on a piece of paper, so that I can make a bank transfer of €40-something to pay VAT. He also provided a phone number to send the bank transfer document via WhatsApp. I wasn't at home when the parcel arrived, so I could not make any of the obvious questions. If I had not received the parcel with the set as well (still unopened from my side), I would have thought this was scam.